“It is necessary to create a system between all the enablers of innovation, to put experiences in common, leaving aside individualisms and aiming to scale at the level of dimensions”. Giovanni Tamburi summarizes what the Italian innovation system needs today to create value and start-ups at an international level.
And he does not spare himself a self-criticism, who with his Tamburi Investment Partners is one of the actors who could be the enabler of a national ecosystem: «It is necessary to have more courage, even as investors – he admits -. I myself could do more: now we have a specific vehicle for start-up incubation, but we’re only talking about a hundred million ”.
Tamburi thus closed the session dedicated to the consolidation of the start-up ecosystem with the creation in Italy of unicorns, of companies with a valuation of over one billion dollars, as part of the Trento Economy Festival.
Investments in innovation have accelerated under the pressure of the epidemic emergency: the digitization of services experienced in lockdown has raised global collections to 700 billion dollars in the course of 2021 and again this year it started in shows optimism, with 145 billion in the first quarter, albeit with a general slowdown in valuations. In this scenario, Southern Europe and Italy with it are the rear with 3.8 billion in 2021.
But the climate is changing and our country is also accelerating on the path of innovation, as underlined by Paolo Gualtieri, professor at the Catholic University, who returns to reiterate the importance of the ecosystem: “Successful start-ups are born close to universities and in the related industries of Big tech, even if today we have to register with some concern that the global system ends up rewarding investors rather than founders in terms of financial repercussions ».